Iran: Two supreme court judges shot dead in Tehran

Two senior Iranian judges have been shot lifeless in an obvious assassination within thenation’s supreme court docket.

Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh had been killed after a gunman entered the court docket, within the capital Tehran, on Saturday morning.

The attacker killed himself whereas fleeing the scene, in keeping with the judiciary’s information web site, Mizan. A bodyguard was additionally injured within the assault.

The motive for the assault is unclear, however each judges are mentioned to have performed a job within the crackdown on opponents of the Islamic authorities because the Nineteen Eighties.

In a press release, the judiciary’s media workplace described the assault as premeditated assassination.

It additionally mentioned that, in keeping with preliminary findings, the attacker had not been concerned in any case thought-about by the supreme court docket. Officers are investigating whether or not anybody else is concerned within the assault.

Each victims have been within the judiciary for many years. Within the supreme court docket, their obligations would have included confirming dying sentences.

Razini, 71, was one in all Iran’s most senior judges and survived an assassination try in 1998.

Moghiseh, 68, has been sanctioned by the EU, the US and Canada over alleged human rights abuses.